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Skilljar

113 Cherry Street, Suite #29434, Seattle, WA, 98104, United States

Overview

Skilljar offers an enterprise-grade Customer Education Platform that enables businesses to create multimedia courses, provide a mobile-responsive learning environment, and automate CRM data integrations. The platform is used by hundreds of companies, including Tableau, Zendesk, U-Haul, Verizon, Procore, and Cisco, to power external-facing customer and partner education programs. Skilljar emphasizes external-facing education to drive product adoption, improve customer retention, and reduce support costs. The company reported a 229% year-over-year increase in new bookings and a 290% increase in total training hours delivered on the platform. Skilljar plans to use new funding to expand its team, fuel go-to-market programs, and accelerate product development. Founded in 2013 and based in Seattle, Skilljar has been recognized by G2 and runs the annual Skilljar Connect conference. Skilljar is an enterprise-grade training platform that enables businesses to deliver customer and partner education via multimedia courses, a mobile-responsive learning environment and automated CRM data integrations. The platform is used by hundreds of companies across industries and geographies, including U-Haul, Mercado Libre, MapR and Zendesk. Founded in 2013 by Amazon veterans Sandi Lin and Jason Stewart and based in Seattle, WA, Skilljar focuses on accelerating customer onboarding and product adoption. In March 2018 the company raised $16.4M in a Series A financing. Skilljar said it will use the new funding to expand its team, accelerate go-to-market programs and drive product development. The article does not disclose revenue or other financial metrics beyond the Series A. Skilljar provides a cloud-based Learning Management System (LMS) for companies to educate their customers and partners, offering multimedia course creation, a mobile-responsive learning environment, and automated CRM data integrations. The platform is designed to accelerate customer onboarding and engagement through customer-facing training. The company plans to use new funding to expand growth and continue building strategic product integrations such as Marketo, Okta, and Zapier. Skilljar is led by co-founders Sandi Lin (CEO) and Jason Stewart (CTO). The company was founded in 2013 and is a graduate of TechStars 2013. It is based in Seattle, WA.

Total raised
$52M
Funding rounds
3
Latest round
Series B
Latest activity
Oct 2020

Industries

  • B2B
  • Corporate Training
  • EdTech
  • Enterprise Software
  • Internet
  • SaaS
  • Software
  • Training
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Recent funding

  1. Series B

    Oct 2020

    $33M

  2. Series A

    Mar 2018

    $16M

  3. Seed

    Sep 2015

    $3M

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